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FEBRUARY 1996 


ve rolled back cut to Dan's oan to join the 
ethers at Hickory Bill. 
Gnce there, Ian introduced Joan and I te th 

35 or so oho vere observing, ohile Ed busped ints 
sone old friends in a tent-casper and proceeded 
to bury thesseloes in several bottles of homesade 
Gine. Please believe me chen I say that Ed oc: 
in high spirits ohen he emerged some tise later 
Joan and Tan were deep in convercation...actucily 
flan oes in his “teaching sode* oith Joan ond 
several] other late arriggis. 

| fs for syself, 1 floated around observing 


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house. Here ends our night, 


oyu already knoe, Prior te sy through the Srng teles Scopes that Gers Bonstrays 
it te the aorld of TINEY end Sincleic cospared to the scopes irom sy day fabs @ sezher, 
+), 1 ges heavily engoged in the conders | I hed c personel cieving through a 25° (pirrer? 
a ey, hile vaca tioning in Florida last | digpeter, a 20’, @ 17.5°, an auard-vinning {4.5° 
le T had the opportunity to cisit ey ol’ equatorial ATH design, and tac different 10's, 
cl Saint Fetershurg Betreneny Club) and Ices extresely ispressed vith the 20 inch, 
pe ein an “ererage™ cluk chserving telescope. The design oes inspired and built by 
eer tlied a “Star Farty" f Toe Clark and John Reeves of the Local Group of 
ec - place near Erockse Barascte-kradenton, Costing under ¥ G's, this 
cf h thru the sernineg scope did an exquisite job chile vieoing MYS, The 
trip te Hickory Hill Blenetary nebula oithin the open Cluster cf stars 
PE Beiting for Tan Brie stuck cut like a sore ib, of toc inch Gee 
By pick se up. Upon h Kagler eye-piece age ta Sie if, bb vcs 
di d te find gost breath teking. 
I f5.6 fiter this great tour, I he 
ti ; ; dstroscan 2001, al] of his eyepieces ex one, 
Fl dy : and cliphed up the observing tover to Feriore #3 
z gere cn our | GOn person] study of the stars spent post of 
aC Eis you thet since joey tine revieging the ocnders of the night sky 
i Booing ta C8 iz ; that I head sissed for years. T 1 turned ey 
! e froz Ban in ij attention to bright Jupiter. The planet oas high 
ci e includes contact | overhead very near the zenith ¢t spot directly 
gi u signed as SPH | over heed}. | realig hed to po on agself at 
Ti = apped cut of club acticit- | en avkoard angle in order to qe goad vier, 
ie Bt first glance there appe to he shadons 
To oes i on Jupiter. Hoovever, on closer uting the 
tees i +. ; 
ah € cith-a i spall, clecst bleck spots proved te ectucllg he 
I Te On Bee | turbulence cithin the norhters borici hend, 
ah elescope | This age later confirmed by lan hseroakion 
Oy eek ogeghi Pts ale lich cau ene i through his 10 inch Reutonicn. 
BY brought en eztre one clong. @hile However, befcre lan could get @ real good 
en ride up oe couldn't heip but resi- j wien af vupiter, he gas hesing little troukle 
hi the past, and of course len told we | Gith his telescope... Nothing serious, just 
ci st club neus for sy benefit. things like piss Saha ge excessive ocbble, 
iT Grrigai, ce get j and Bec. actors running 
up cith anuther faniliar face, pild, and for sobe reason, the 
forper SPEC er Ed “gba (ahs Support For end-cap to Dan & scope kept 
su ieee Teo Mee | Cael | Sesame ders bp 
G hed dricen up 1 e covers, 
ede tga e | | Ban's problens vere fincily ai- 
Bebler, Joan fencer. Refore ge | 2281 - spectran - @i j ans 2B : naan 
started cur all-night observing | leviated after 10 to 18 winutes 
session, ve decided to indulge and of this discosfort. &fter he- 
7 } a Tf 
ourselves pith scone delicicaus . : | ing verbally chastised, Ed and 1 
harkecue ue in Erockevilie. i TIMEX sinclair | stopped jusping around Ban's 
Again oe told tales of fameus | sone - 1508 - YT | scope and causing ali the other 
ties oe ted experienced in the | | Bischief. 
post. after be and l had stuf- | — CAMBRIDGE = | Uniortunat telg, 36 minutes 
r = ee er ids ding 
fed aur faces vith a led-high | later, clouds roiled in ending 
pictes fron the se} ar along } { the ohseroing, Be quickit es- 
vith our ecin dish ani giving i coped froe the cool night air 
the scitress a difficult tise | fer some het cecoe in the club- 
| i 


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COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS 


ga Sect Ul sb aera Ste 

If qou don't have a Z068, 1 cas probably provide 
a geod used one. nd if I can't, I can probably 
point gou te soseone oho can. J can instal} 
Spectrus esulation for $15.00. This consists of 
a svitch on the rear of the sachine, chich 
selects the 2068 or SFECTRON half af @ 32% in- 
ternalig-installed epros. 


If qou send ge your 2068 for this wodification, 
1 oil] BFS it hack to you the day after I get 


ae INTERFACE 
aponent contains the disc systes BESIC 
softecre, and handles date transfe 
pet 


he 2068 ond the controller. 


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nai ZERRR interfe 
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includes Spec 


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a2) TRE POUERSSVEP iY 

The criging] ZEREH pover supply is notoriously 
hot-running and trouklesope, and it has XG trade 
in vgive at far ae I's concerned. I prefer to 
sell caoi-running “sevilcher” pover supplies. 
They are excel despite their loo price, but 
weucilg gar’ t ina silver box. If you don't 
order a syster inet, then your seitcher sill 
he provided in some sort of boz, aocd or setel. 
Bost of the surplus supplies I buy are unboxed. 
I's a eoodeork so T box them in geod. The 
boxes 1 sake hk a front-sounted coitch ard LED 
pover-on indicatcr, and are adequately 


pentilated, 


Y: THE COHTEOLLEE 
The contreiler is @ special-purpose 280 cosputer 
Ghich controls date transfer betueen the Z068 
and the dise drives. The controller qlee 
includes tao seria] BS23e ports. 


B 1GR controller is adequate if you do HOT vant 
CP/H. & GYR controlier is needed if you IG eant 
CP/8. G4F controllers include a CP/M disc and 
CPA docusentetion. 


COMPONENT BESCRIPTIONS, Cont, 


5: DISC DRIVES 

isc drives are, of course, the heart of the 
syustep. I use and recopsend TEAC 3,5" ?Z0F 
drives rather than Bitachi 3" drives, chich cre 
in very lipited supply and hold cery little dete, 


You can get by oith only one drive, but |} r 
pend toc or sore. You can aloays purchase ec 
drives later, as needed. If you ech to transt 
data frog 3" to 3.5° and are unable te do ec 
because you lack a 3° drive, gou can send we wour 
3° dises and I'll do it far you a “Binisel cost, 
The CP/B RIGS can be modified : 
rather then 3° drives 
contain the BIGS 


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There are toc types of susten cabinets 


Type # is the originc] metal FURZGG0 cabinet. 1 
have only 3 of these as of {0-27-89. hieg 
TOOE for a power supply, controller and 2 dris 
(2" or 3.8"), This cabinet seasures 18 4 
x 7.8°h., Urives are horizontal, 


Tupe Bis ¢ very pretty coad cabinet desi gaet and 
constructed bu ucurs truely. é 
a pover supply, controller, ¢ and. UW ‘to POU drives 
3" or 3.5° or §.28°). This cabinet seasure: 
is"R x GH x 8h. Trises are vertical, 


T gill install your components in your cakinel a 
mo charge. Your seniter can be placed on tap of 
either cabinet. 


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SPECTEUH ENULATION 
aq very Gorthohile option te have 
co great dec] of excellent : 
accilahie. For sore details, s 
ates". 


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You pian te use @ seria] printer, then oo 
t need a printer interface, since you cen 
controiler’s serial port, BUT REGSEE: 
Pregrags pould need sodification te cork oith 
this oe T recomend you use an SEBCO-typ 
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IHTERFACE 


Centronics interface and an Epson-tope pri 
for acecaas coppatibility gith existing s¢ 


Cee 


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interface either as ¢ separate unit, built 
into the Type K ZEBEA interface. 

&4: THE LINGER BOARD 

This is an BSZ3Z terminal board. It can be used 
with CPeH to provide an excellent &@-colusn sanc- 


chrope display fusing your cospesite or TTL 
Benitor) and excellent keyboard input, VEING oh 
Ikt-type keyboard. J also have plans (celled 
SYS80) to sodify the TIMEX and SPECTEIE EQNS 
use gith this board. 


Lot 


The LINGER board can epulate a grect seny dif- 
fernet terminals. Please crite or phone first if 
gou cre interested in the LINGER option, There 
is rooe in Cahinet B for this board, but not in 
Cabinet &. Grite for a date sheet concerning the 
LINGER board! 


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All the PRINT # commands are to 
be a semi-colon, or by one or 
more apostrophes (SYti SHIFT 7, 
if blank lines are wanted. . 


Dr. Dreqer’s book informs that 
PRINT #2:;" gill print to the 
upper screen Which is the same 
thing that PRINT also does. The 
next PRINT command “PRINT #3;” 
Gill send the printing toa the 
printer. This can be either the 
2040 printer or a full size 
yrinter as long as you have the 
printer driver loaded and 
initialized. 


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is used by the “2ATAHLEFER”. It is 
the means by which words are 
entered ta make the "“ATHLEER” 
talk. Homever, some words da i 
nek sound right if spelled pra | 
perly, sc you might have ta mis— | 
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ing edge cornmector and is ready 
for a mother board. If you wank 
a feed through connector, like 
the AEBCO, there is a $5.00 
extra charge for this type con-— 
nector. The bturnground time for 
these boards will be about 6-& 
neeks. Fleaqse remit the amount 
mith each order. You can send bo 


Sinclair Milwaukee Users Group 


20. Box 101 


Butler, WI Ss00?7 


If you vant more info, urite 
them on this club project. 


THE PLOTTER — CCATS USERS GROUP 
JAHUABRY 1990 


NORE CAMBRIDGE NEWS: 


| Me qust found out that Sir Clive 
| Sinclair of Cambridqe Computers 


LTD. in Great Britian, will he 
releaqsing an HS-DOS hased pork— 


| able computer Cunder Y pounds) 


in early 1990. The unit will in- 
Clude a 3.5" drive and a choice 
ef a 20 or YO Mbyte hard drive. 
Qe will have to uait and see 
what he comes up with this tine! 


ANEBICAI HICEO SYSTEus 
2176 GROEN BORD #262 
DHN JUSE, Cn otc!